Morning the next day.
As the sky lightened, Rita woke to the clamor of her alarm.
She’d cried too fiercely last night. Her eyes were swollen. She shot a look at her phone, switched off the alarm, and checked her missed calls.
No missed calls.
Liam hadn’t called again or texted her.
Seems like he’d lost patience in her.
Good.
That was good.
Blow after blow to his heartstrings – that should be enough to accept it when she said that she never loved him, right?
Enough to let her go, even hate her… without his weak spot, whatever happened to her or the Brown family, he wouldn’t care or be threatened.
Thinking of that, Rita’s heartache stopped.
She clambered up, rinsed herself up, and went downstairs.
Noah and Amelia were having breakfast right now.
Seeing her come down, Amelia looked at her swollen eyes and frowned. “Did you not sleep well last night, Rita?”
Noticing Amelia was staring at her eyes, Amelia rubbed them awkwardly. “I slept well enough… drank too much water yesterday and bloated up.”
Walking out of the kitchen, Zoe just so happened to hear Rita’s excuse.
Zoe frowned. “What do you mean you drank too much water. You were crying too hard because of your stomachache last night, weren’t you?”
“If you’ve got a stomachache, just say so. What’s with the story, kid?” Noah wore a confused expression at the side.
With her lie mercilessly deconstructed by her mother, Rita made a face. “Just didn’t want Dad and Grandma to worry is all.”
Rita’s explanation had Noah even more worried.
looking at her in a different light now. She was beginning to feel that –
know what was going through
in, but Zoe swapped the cold dish in front of her with a
chuckled. “A bit
don’t want to see you cry from the pain.” Thinking back to how hard Rita had been
Rita was her flesh and blood. They were still family
could only watch the others dine on flavorful dishes while she contended herself with bland
she say
gone with
she was reaping the consequences
never liked millet congee, with everyone having eaten their fill and returned to their room, there was still over
breakfast, Zoe?” Rose walked over, sitting casually in front of them. “What a
just fought yesterday, but now Rose was acting like nothing had
fixed up the two of them
waiting for their food, Rose looked up at Rita, eyes darting, trying to think of a way to
she saw the emerald jade ring on Rita’s finger
knew that that ring was meant for the Brown
always kept it on her ring, originally to decide who
was this ring
green ring, Rose’s emotions were already boiling over. She played it casual and took a
Rita looked consciously
she’d forgotten to take the ring off after Amelia put it on
his food,
good look, he choked mid-swallow. “Why… why’s that ring look so
under the table. “That’s exactly the
time, he was completely certain that it was the Brown ancestral ring. He grew so pale and couldn’t eat
but looking at his expression, she understood that it wasn’t
the ring and said
“Then?” Mason demanded impatiently.
staring at the ring, Zoe had had enough. Her reply was straight to
was utter silence in the
looked at each other, their faces
pair know full well what the
going to inherit
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